Month: October 2022
KB2775511 missing in WSUS
UPDATE: it seems I was a bit too quick with my analysis. Thanks to reader and commenter Shane for pointing this out! I had checked our internal documentation with manually imported updates and couldn’t find KB2775511, so I had drawn the premature and incorrect conclusion Microsoft had withdrawn the update from the WSUS channel. After Shane’s comment I deep-dived a bit more and yes, it seems the update was probably never available through WSUS, so it seems someone has imported these updates in our environment without editing the documentation. Bottom line: everything is normal, except for the state of our internal documentation 😉
Today I’ve noticed the KB2775511 updates were missing in recently set up WSUS servers, while they were effectively provided on older WSUS servers:
On an older WSUS server
Windows 11 22H2 released: rundown after 20 days
UPDATE d.d. October 31, 2022: the Windows HDR Calibration app mentioned below has been introduced with the 2022 Update, but is not tied to it.
Below I also talked about FEPs. For completeness, I should have mentioned there are actually 3 types of these packs, with FEPs only one of them. So here they are:
- Feature experience Pack (FEP): updated through classic updates
- Online Service Experience Pack: updated through classic updates
- Web Experience Pack: updated through the Microsoft Store (so these can actually be categorized under the Microsoft Store update path mentioned below as well)
To conclude yet one last thing to mention: below I’ve spoken of how new feature were already introduced in Moment-style earlier, for example, like in February 2022. For clarity I would like to say I didn’t mean these updates were officially and/or technically Moments. Part of the published new features related to the aforementioned update is even technically not a component of the update, but technically comes from a Web Experience Pack, updated through the Microsoft Store.
Beware this post is from October 10, 2022, so everything mentioned herein should be seen in the light of what was known then.
Microsoft has released the first feature update for Windows 11 on September 20, 2022. Dubbed 2022 Update, the update sets Windows 11 on version 22H2, coming from 21H2, the RTM version of Windows 11. The release date is no surprise, as it has been rumored as the General Availability (GA) date before. Relax before you read on: the system requirements are the same as for Windows 11 RTM (21H2)! On the other hand, this post is not for the faint of heart, so be prepared for a large bunch of very technical information, a lot of reasonings, attention for nuances and hues and a lot of headaches. Please consider this post as some sort of comprehensive white paper and not as a typical, small blog post to announce or deal with something specific. Take a break from time to time and provide a lot of strong, ristretto-style coffee, but this time in big mugs! Now, let’s move on!
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